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Bill made it famous with his crashy software that made knowing it needed... These days of windows 8 I still have to use it regularly because of freezing programs and OS issues.
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> CMD+ALT+ESC on mac, btw. That goes to Force Quit, whereas CTRL+ALT+DEL on old Windows used to open the real task manager the Mac equivalent of which would be Activity Monitor (sadly, there doesn't seem to be a default shortcut to it).
CTRL+ALT+DEL on old Windows used to open the real task manager Really? Define "old Windows?" I have vague memories of the "three finger salute" invoking a reboot on Windows 3.1, as well as MS-DOS. (early 1990's)
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It's been famous for probably longer than you've been paying attention, then. Windows stability has made huge strides over the past 20ish years.
I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the common belief seems to be. Way over 90% of problems I witnessed myself was duewas dues to faulty software, drivers or hardware. And as you say it just got better with most releases which is (just guessing) partly due to less OS bugs and partly due to the OS tak…
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> CMD+ALT+ESC on mac, btw. That goes to Force Quit, whereas CTRL+ALT+DEL on old Windows used to open the real task manager the Mac equivalent of which would be Activity Monitor (sadly, there doesn't seem to be a default shortcut to it).
CTRL+ALT+DEL on old Windows used to open the real task manager Really? Define "old Windows?" I have vague memories of the "three finger salute" invoking a reboot on Windows 3.1, as well as MS-DOS. (early 1990's)
Check this by Raymond Chen where he explains better than me: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/02/08/1039...
Didn't address how the "system is screwed up, restart" sequence was adopted as the "do this to initiate first login".
So the security architect for NT (Jim Kelly) went looking for a keystroke sequence he could use.
It turned out that the only keystroke combination that wasn't already being used by a shipping application was control-alt-del, because that was used to reboot the computer.
And thus was born the Control-Alt-Del to log in.
I've got to say that the first time that the logon dialog went into the system, I pressed it with a fair amount of trepidation - I'd been well trained that C-A-D rebooted the computer and....
- http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/01/24/359...
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC does what CTRL+ALT+DEL used to do -- goes straight to the task manager. CMD+ALT+ESC on mac, btw.
I've always wondered whether the creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del was aware that the MIT Lisp Machines were rebooted with Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout, or if this is just a case of convergent reinvention. Does anyone know?
I can't verify, because I can't find old WordPerfect docs, but I remember hearing that CTRL + ALT + DEL was save for WordPerfect. The hint was that MS chose that as a monopoly-extending tactic. Might be thinking of ALT + F4, though, and this might be total nonsense.
Alt+F4 I believe was also picked by IBM as part of the Common User Access standard.
What about the CTRL-Left Amiga-Right Amiga on the Amiga systems?!
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It's been famous for probably longer than you've been paying attention, then. Windows stability has made huge strides over the past 20ish years.
I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the common belief seems to be. Way over 90% of problems I witnessed myself was duewas dues to faulty software, drivers or hardware. And as you say it just got better with most releases which is (just guessing) partly due to less OS bugs and partly due to the OS tak…
Hmm, it's a very long time ago that I pressed that key combination. I tried it out, and apparently it is wired to the Logout function of KDE...
Yeah- it was a pretty standard thing in Desktop Managers for a while for to be logout (or return to DM, depending on what you're using). I think GDM 3.0+ finally threw it out, but you'll still see it in KDM, LightDM, and Slim.